Sacred Smoke to Heal US War Veterans

December 20, 2007

Author: Robert Hodierne

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7151577.stm

Albert Laughter, a fifth generation Navajo medicine man, sits on the ground inside a towering white tepee.

A small fire of cedar logs burns in the centre of the floor, its aromatic smoke curling through the opening at the peak of the tepee, 20 feet overhead.